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Veni.(Brief Article)(Poem)(Illustration)

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| October 01, 2004 | Greening, John | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
   The sun will hardly rise in Iceland now, 
   summer long gone, and all the four-wheel drives 
   that peeled the Golden Circle chew on snow 
   or gnaw at glaciers: free-ranging lives 
   have shrunk into a hibernating ball, 
   are wound up in its ticks till plover-call. 
 
   The lovers, meanwhile, those who felt their way 
   towards each other in this winter blind, 
   will conjure elf-lights from inhuman grey, 
   will drink the fieriest potions of the mind 
   from shared cups in the dark, and need no more 
   than wick and oil and match, their private store. 
 
   A figure stalks the highlands: smoking, slides 
   a white knight through her dreams, where it is bright 
   from that brilliance the Arctic ice-cap ...

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